How to Juggle Multiple Projects: T2B 9

How Do You Prioritize Multiple Projects?

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What are some good time management strategies?  Especially when faced with multiple projects with different audiences & intentions? What do you do to effectively manage your time so you have time to create (while juggling multiple projects)? How do I strike a balance between going with the flow vs planning? How do you know when it's time to stop and hit the reset button? How do you make time to stop and hit the reset button? How do you keep work from sneaking in and eating up your rest/reset time?

Links to references made in the podcast:

Jema's project buckets free SEO training for newbies T2B support crew Podcast Movement - a great FB group for podcasters where Jema runs a weekly activity. (NB - Jema's activity not available for summer) Jema's Half the Clothes travel website about to deploy its life hacking section and five new articles Where you can contact Jema if you're interested in an online business internship Wanderlife.co - the coming-soon website to help people who want to hack their housing or financial life by living in a van, tiny house, or other creative structure. Work exchanging - what Jema spends 10-15 hours of her week doing.  Her favorite travel and life hack!
- A Depth Year - David Cain's hypothetical idea that his Raptitude readers were immediately desperate to make a reality.
(And Raptitude's taglines are actually "a street level look at the human existence" and "getting better at being human."  If you're listening... sorry, David!)
- Episode 5 where we talked about the "How to Have Time to Do Everything" exercise. And Warren Buffet's 5/25 advice response to "How do you prioritize multiple projects?"
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(And How to Fit Creating and Marketing into a Busy Life… without Dependable WiFi.)

 

Timestamp Listening:

01:57 . . . How do you prioritize multiple projects? 04:05 . . . How Jema splits her time when stressed out 05:06 . . . How to know when to pull the brakes on multiple projects and hit the reset button 08:16 . . . How it feels for Berna (and most people!) to consider pulling the brakes on the stressed-out-too-much-to-do life. 10:40 . . . Berna recognizes which signs in her life have actually been pointing to the need for at least a break from juggling multiple projects. 12:35 . . . How to hit the reset button once you've taken a break from being stressed out with too much to do. 14:59 . . . How long you should rest once you've started wondering, "What do you do to effectively manage your time?" 15:32 . . . People who are good at resting. And why westerners aren't. 16:57 . . . The few westerners who are good at resting (as opposed to asking, "What are some good time management strategies?"), how they're doing it, and how you can, too. 17:21 . . . Why your break from life needs to be two weeks - not one. 17:56 . . . You know you're a westerner when... 18:27 . . . The mindset that will help you successfully take an important break from life 20:30 . . . What it means if something seems hard and scary. 20:50 . . . What rest and dehydration have in common 21:43 . . . How to design a routine that doesn't lead to overwhelming stress and anxiety. And that helps you get what you want out of life. 23:04 . . . What happens to your productivity compulsion when you rest. And why. 25:14 . . . The bright side of being constantly driven to hyper-productivity. 32:05 . . . What to do if you can't make yourself rest. 34:02 . . . How to strike a balance between going with the flow vs planning. 34:42 . . . Berna's homework (that you can do, too!) 36:00 . . . How to get your T2B fix between episodes 38:05 . . . What Berna is most dreading in her life 40:11 . . . Why Jema wants you to stop saying "doing nothing." 40:39 . . . What Jema is (ironically?) dreading in her life 42:41 . . . Outtakes. Come. Laugh with us!